An institution that bars women from leadership conveys the message that women are not fully human. No leader of such an institution, especially one who has expressed his assent to that barrier, as Francis has, should ever be taken as a progressive read full essay

It's time for the RCC to ORDAIN WOMEN and to move women into leadership roles as bishops, cardinals and popes. To continue the power structures which force women into subordinate roles in our church is to diminish all of humanity.